Unhappy Russia

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3613, 28 December 1905, Page 2

Unhappy Russia

THE MOSCOW REBELLION.

FIVE THOUSAND KILLED.

FOURTEEN THOUSAND WOUNDED.

London, December 26,

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the ‘ ‘ Daily Telegraph ” reports that the latest news from Moscow shows that down to an early hour on Monday morning five thousand persons had been killed and fourteen thousand wounded. Fighting is still proceeding. Provisions are scarce. The strikers display reckless bravery. When expelled from the city they built heavier barricades in the suburbs.

Large numbers of workmen and peasants from outlying districts are co-operating with the Moscow strikers.

The correspondent further predicts that a commercial and industrial crisis of unexampled severity is imminent unless the Government suppresses the anarchy, though State financial obligations will be fulfilled.

Furious fighting continued all day. At least five hundred strikers were wounded.

Fighting was renewed on Sun* day and fresh barricades erected, 1 the, strikers being undismayed. Similar scenes to those of Saturday were enacted all day. Though the artillery fire was more intermittent, many lives were lost. The strikers ambushed a force of gendarmes in Karethaia street, killing or wounding twenty. The troops killed many innocent persons through firing at private houses where it was suspected strikers had taken refuge. A TRAGIC INCIDENT. St. Petersburg, Dec. 25.

A number of Moscow rebels captured an officer. When he refused to surrender his sword, they almost dismembered him.